Spring-cushion top for wardrobe trunks



Aug. 3 1926.

A. H. ANDERSON SPRING CUSHION TOP FOR WARDROBE TRUNKS Filed Sept 16. 1924 WM m# ATTORNEY.

Patented Aug. 3, 1926.

ANDY H. ANDERSON, OF LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

SPRING-CUSHION T01 FDR W'AR-DROBE TRUNKS.

Application filed September 16; 1924. Serial No. 737,975.

This invention relates to wardrobe trunks of the type in which clothes hangers are slidably and removably arranged on run 11ers secured to the sides of the trunks and particularly to cushion tops or pads forretaining garments in suspended posi tions on said hangers and for retaining such hangers in any desired positions on said runners.

In wardrobe trunks as heretofore con structed with pads arranged between the inside of the trunk top and the tops of the hangers, it was found that the pads very soon lost their slight initial resilience and failed to hold either garments or hangers in desired positions in the trunk. This failure was due to repeated embedding of the hangers in the pads and the resultant packing of the padding material.

One of the objects of my invention is to obviate the objections just noted as inher ent in mere pads, and to provide a cushion top which will at all times hold both garments and hangers in desired positions, and will retain its effectiveness even after long and continued use.

A further object is to provide a. cushion top for wardrobe trunks which can be made as a separate unit, incorporated in any trunk, and be easily and quickly removed for repair and adapted for ready installation in any existing trunks of the type described.

A. further object is to provide a cushion top for wardrobe trunks which is of sim ple c nstruction, easily and cheaply manufactured, and well adapted for the purpose descri-bec Other objects of the invention will be come apparent as the detailed description thereof proceeds.

. In the accompanying drawings wherein the same reference characters indicate the same parts in all the views:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a trunk embodying my invention, showing the front and top of the trunk open and with said invention arranged in the topthereof.

Figure 2 is an elevation of my cushion top separated from the trunk top but ready to be applied thereto.

Figure 3 is a sectional perspective view showing the structural arrangement of the several parts of the invention.

Figure 4 is an elevation of the plate used to secure my cushion members to their supporting base plate.

As illustrated in the drawing, the trunk 1 may be of any suitable, known or approved form of construction. It comprises a body 1, a door 2, and a top 3 hinged to said body in the Way common to trunks of this type. i v

My invention as applied to the trunk top consists ofabase member 4 adaptedto receive a plate 5 provided with holes 6 through screws 7 or other suitablesecuring means may be passed to fasten plate 5 to base member 4-. 'The base member 4 and the plate 5 are provided with registering openings to receive screws or other suitable fastening means 9 for securing the cushion top unit as a whole to the trunk top.

Secured between base member 4. and plate 5 is the material 10 forming thecover for the cushion. A rigid pad plate 11 is arranged between the base plate 4 and the cover 10 and is adapted to receive and secure one end of each of the springs 12, the other ends of which are suitably secured to the base member at. A light layer of soft ma terial is arranged as a pad between the plate 11 and the cover 10.

The depth of the cushions will, of course, depend upon the depth of the space between the tops of the hangers 14 and the inside of the trunk top, and will obviously be somewhat greater than the depth of such space, in order to provide a yielding retaining pressure sufficiently great to hold the garments positioned on their respective hangers and to hold said hangers spaced as desired on their runners 15.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. The combination with a trunk having hanger tracks therein and garment hangers slidably mounted on the tracks and a hinged cover adjacent said hangers, of a base member secured to said cover, a plate secured to said base member andhaving an opening therein, a sheet of flexible material secured between said plate and said base member and having a part thereof extending through said opening, a rigid plate positioned between said sheet and said base member, padding material between said rigid plate and said part of the flexible material, and springs engaging said base member and said rigid plate to hold the rigid plate and thesaid part of the flexible material spaced from the base member.

2. The combination with a trunk having a body provided with tracks and hangers on said tracks and having a hinged cover mounted adjacent said hangers, of a base member secured to said cover, a plate secured to said base member and having a hole therein, a sheet of upholstery material secured between said plate and said base member and having a part thereof extending through said hole, a rigid plate between said base member and said part, springs extending between the base member and the rigid plate to yieldingly hold them in spaced relation, and a layer of padding filling the space between the rigid plate and the sheet of upholstery. V

3. A cushion top unit for wardrobe trunks comprising base member, asheet of fabric, a plate provided with anopemng and adapted to secure said sheet to said base member while permitting a part of the sheet to protrude through said opening, a second plate of rigid material positioned between said sheet and said base member, compression springs for spacing the second plate from the base member, and padding arranged between the second plate and the said part of the sheet,

4. The combination with a trunk having a body provided with tracks and hangers thereon and having a hinged cover mounted adjacent 'said hangers, of a pad, flexible means for securing said pad to said cover, a rigid plate arranged in said means between said cover and said pad, and means between said plate and said cover for yielding'ly forcing said pad against said flexible meansto form a spring pressed cushion adapted to form holding contact with garments arranged on said hangers when the cover is closed.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

ANDY H. ANDERSON. 

